Quailsâ Gate Winery is a Canadian Winery located on the shore of Okanagan Lake in Westbank, British Columbia. Situated in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Quailsâ Gate produces over 50,000 cases of wine per year. Quailsâ Gate are best known for their Family Reserve Pinot noir and Chardonnay. Quails' Gate's Wineshop and Old Vines Restaurant are open daily, year round to the public.
Quailsâ Gate was founded by the Stewarts, one of the OkanaganâÂÂs pioneer horticultural families. Richard John Stewart arrived in the Okanagan Valley from County Kildare, Ireland in 1908. He and his 2 brothers purchased several parcels of land and established nurseries. In 1956, his son Richard Stewart acquired the Allison Ranch on which the winery now sits and started planting vines along with fruit orchards. His son Ben, a banker by trade started working at Quailsâ Gate in the 1980s. In 1989, the family abandoned the orchards and focused the properties on producing wine, relaunching the business as Quailsâ Gate Estate Winery. In 1992, Richard's other son, Tony, left his career as a stockbroker to return to the family business. Tony now runs the business still privately held by the Stewart family.